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🏆 Celebrating the Enterprise Lab Awards 2026 winners! 🎉 Last night, at our Big Summer Social, we celebrated the people who make Imperial’s entrepreneurial community such a vibrant, supportive and inspiring place to be. The Enterprise Lab Awards 2026 recognise the founders, academics, professional staff, mentors and experts who are not only achieving incredible things themselves, but helping others to do the same. A huge congratulations to our winners: 🏆 Founder Community Champion: Louise Lenborg Skajem For being the kind of founder who gives back. Louise consistently shares insights, connects founders with useful resources, gets involved across the community and proudly champions programmes she believes will benefit fellow founders. 🏆 Academic Entrepreneur: Sam Cooper Since founding Polaron in 2023, Sam has taken the venture from proof of concept to commercial engagement at remarkable speed. Polaron secured the inaugural £1m Manchester Prize for AI and in February 2026, raised $8m in seed funding. A fantastic example of research being translated into real-world impact. 🏆 Professional Staff Supporter: Katie Colledge Since joining the Enterprise Lab in July 2025, Katie has transformed our data and operations. From creating a 10-year dataset and developing Beauhurst cohort reports, to improving startup identification and reporting, she has brought structure, insight and care to the way we understand and support entrepreneurial activity across Imperial. 🏆 Expert of the Year: Christos Kapatos, PhD Founders describe Christos as “extremely valuable”, “amazing” and “exceptionally insightful”, and the impact of his support speaks for itself. His expertise and connections have helped ventures navigate fundraising, business models, IP and sector-specific HealthTech and MedTech challenges, while his generosity extends well beyond the coaching session. 🏆 Mentor of the Year: Jenny Chong Jenny has been mentoring Imperial ventures since 2020 and is one of our most active and highly regarded mentors. She goes far beyond the traditional mentoring role, supporting the wider Enterprise Lab mission and making powerful connections, including introducing ORUK to the MedTech SuperConnector, now in its fourth year of supporting the programme. 🏆 Student Alumni Entrepreneur: Chloe So A huge year for Chloe and her venture, PulpaTronics From winning the H&M Foundation Global Change Award and being named a Forbes 30 Under 30, to securing B Corp certification, raising £430k, and reaching #14 in the 2026 Startups 100 Index, Chloe continues to demonstrate the potential of innovation to create meaningful environmental impact. Congratulations to Louise, Sam, Katie, Christos, Jenny and Chloe, and a huge thank you to everyone who nominated, supported and celebrated the incredible people in our community. ❤️ #EnterpriseLabAwards #ImperialCollegeLondon #OurImperial

Could your startup help Kerry reinvent the next generation of breakthrough ingredient and biotech solutions? 🔎 What is Kerry looking for? 🥐 Clean-label alternatives to functional ingredients in bakery, meat & dairy 🌱 Naturally sourced bioactives for nutrition & taste ♻️ Smarter ways to recover and reuse enzymatic processing aids 🧬 Human-identical proteins for infant & human nutrition through precision fermentation 💥 But here’s the challenge: great science isn’t enough. To unlock commercial adoption, solutions need to prove functionality, cost-in-use, regulatory readiness and scalability. That’s where you come in. The Sustainable Food Accelerator connects ambitious startups with global industry leaders like Kerry creating a route from breakthrough technology → industry validation → commercial impact. 🔥 Building something that could transform ingredients, nutrition or food production? This could be your opportunity to get in front of corporates like Kerry to tackle real industry challenges and take your technology from lab to scale. 👉 Apply now: https://lnkd.in/e4AsQKzG Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eR2UCsbq Let’s turn the next big food innovation into real-world impact. #SustainableFoodAccelerator #PartnerSpotlight #Kerry #FoodTech #FoodInnovation #IngredientInnovation #Biotechnology #Nutrition #Startups #SustainableFood #FoodTechStartups #DeepTech Imperial College London Microbial Food Hub Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation

The Greenhouse accelerator from Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation is recruiting for cohort 11. If you're an early-stage startup with a high potential deeptech or cleantech solution to tackle climate change, get your application ready today. The programme gets founders investor-ready and includes: - Up to £20,000 equity-free grant funding; - 12 months of support to move from lab to commercial traction; - Office and lab space at Imperial; - Expert coaching and mentoring; - Investor intros; - and access to a thriving alumni network. Apply today (deadline 21 August): https://ow.ly/LV0v50ZyV0U

🚀 We know there are plenty of ambitious, early-stage startups in our community - so here are two great accelerator opportunities closing soon! The Greenhouse accelerator from Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation is recruiting for cohort 11. If you're an early-stage startup with a high potential deeptech or cleantech solution to tackle climate change, get your application ready today. The programme gets founders investor-ready and includes: - Up to £20,000 equity-free grant funding; - 12 months of support to move from lab to commercial traction; - Office and lab space at Imperial; - Expert coaching and mentoring; - Investor intros; - and access to a thriving alumni network. Apply today (or before 21 August): https://hubs.ly/Q04sDct40 The Sustainable Food Accelerator from The Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein - Imperial, Undaunted and the Microbial Food Hub helps sustainable food ventures move from lab-validated science to commercial readiness by securing pilots, investment and scale-up opportunities. 💷 Ventures can access up to £100,000 in equity-free funding; up to £2 million investment; end-to-end scale-up infrastructure; corporate pilot programmes; regulatory and grant writing support and access to a global network of foodtech corporates and investors. If you're a pre-Series A startup developing sustainable food tech, apply today: https://hubs.ly/Q04sDG-n0 If these opportunities aren't right for you, please tag someone you think will benefit!

Why food waste? What’s our solution? What’s next for Mimica? Watch our new video by Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation and find out! 📹 👉 The Greenhouse accelerator by Undaunted is accepting applications for the next cohort now. Find out more in the comments. Video by Fabulr Studios Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment Solveiga Pakštaitė #FoodWaste #BumpByMimica #FoodInnovation #SustainableFoodSystems #ClimateAction